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grey ; neck, upper back, and upper breast greyish vinous ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts slate-grey ; scapulars slate-black ; lower 

 breast and abdomen purple-chestnut; under tail-coverts cbestnut, 

 with the inner webs partly fulvous ; tibial feathers and those of 

 the vent and flanks light fulvous tipped with chestnut ; wings 

 and tail dark slate-grey, the latter with a transverse pale grey 

 band about the middle : " bill dark lead-colour, tip bluish horny ; 

 feet carmine-red ; iris and orbits coral-red " ( Wallace). Length 

 19-65-17-69 inches, wing 10-85-9-82, tail 6-09-5-89, bill 1*06- 

 0-98, tarsus 1-37. 



Female. Like the male. 



Hah. New Guinea, except the most south-eastern part, and the 

 Western Papuan Islands — Itawak, Waigiou, Batanta, Salawatti, 

 Mysol, and Aru Islands. 



a. ad. sk. Waigiou. Wallace Coll. 



b, c. 6 ? ad. sk. Salawatti, July (von Rosenberg). Tweeddale Coll. 

 d, e. cf a d. sk. Mysol, June, Aug. (von Rosen- Tweeddale Coll. 



berg). 

 1. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Capt. Blackwood, 



E.N. [P.]. 

 ,<•/. $ ad. sk. Dorey ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



h. $ ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. J. Broadbent, Esq. 



[0.]. 

 k. Ad. sk. Port Moresby (0. C. Stone). Sharpe Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. S.E. New Guinea, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m, n. (J Jad.sk. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



o. $ ad. sk. Aru Islands ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



38. Carpophaga rubiensis. 



Carpophaga pinon, Sharpe (nee Q. 8f G.), Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. svii. 



p. 446 (1882) (Taburi). 

 Carpophaga pinon, var. rubiensis, Meyer, Sitzb. u. Abh. d. Ges. Isis, 



1884, Abh. i. p. 51 (Eubi). 

 Carpophaga rubiensis, Salvad. Ann. Mvs. Civ. Gen. (2) ix. p. 588 



(1890) (Euro), x. p. 825 (1891) (Bujakori) ; id. Mem. R. An. Sc. 



Tor. (2) xbi. p. 57 (Ayg. Orn. Pap. e MoL p. 183) (1891). 



Similar to C. pinon, from which it differs in having the upper 

 and under wing-coverts edged with light grey, the lower back, rump, 

 and basal upper tail-coverts of a lighter grey, and the longer 

 upper tail-coverts darker than the basal ones : " iris coral-red ; 

 naked skin round the eyes purple-red, with the external part pale 

 yellow ; bill grey, with the base greyish green ; feet red " (Loria). 

 Dimensions as in C. pinon. (Mus. Genoa). 



llah. Eubi and S.E. New Guinea. 



39. Carpophaga salvadorii. 



Carpophaga pinon, Sclat. U>ec Q. §• G\) P.Z.8. 1876, p. 460 (no 



exact locality). 

 Carpophaga salvadorii, TritAr. l'.Z.S. 1881, p. 996 ; Salvad. Ann. 



